Insights and Stories on Crops

Jun. 25, 2009 at 2:13 pm CDT

Southern Ontario cucumber growers have a greater likelihood of new contracts once their local buyer’s grading and shipping plant is upgraded to process their crops more quickly. Thames Van Farms’ cucumber grading and shipping facility in the Chatham-Kent area is to get over $1 million in provincial funds toward a […]

Jun. 25, 2009 at 12:42 am CDT

Saskatchewan Crop Insurance has extended its seeding deadline for greenfeed crops to mid-July and loosened several other regulations to deal with drought in the province’s west. The Melville-based Crown corporation said Wednesday it would extend the deadline to July 15 from June 30 for seeding annual cereal crops grown for […]

Jun. 25, 2009 at 12:24 am CDT

As I have mentioned before in this column, the Japanese are true pioneers of technical analysis of the markets. Their techniques have evolved from fairly simple beginnings, trading forward rice contracts (futures) in the 17th century, to now include many sophisticated ways to analyze the markets, including the amazingly powerful […]

By David Drozd

Jun. 24, 2009 at 5:35 pm CDT

June 24 — Financial markets were mixed and some rebounded a little today as reports claiming we have seen the worst of the recession came out this morning. The U.S. dollar regained three-quarters of a cent from yesterday’s losses and the Canadian dollar was down 0.1 cents, closing at US86.88 […]

By Brian Wittal

Jun. 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm CDT

Giant foxtail, an annual plant and major pest of soybean, alfalfa, potato, corn, sunflower, tomato, peach and grape crops, has spread far enough in Canada to earn a new classification. The plant, Setaria faberi, was previously a Class 1 prohibited noxious weed, but was reclassified Wednesday by the federal government […]